Andre Retterath

Essays

✍️Inside Our DDVC London Hackathon: AI for Finding, Assessing & Managing Deals

Oct 15, 2026

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5 min read

✍️Inside Our DDVC London Hackathon: AI for Finding, Assessing & Managing Deals

Pre-CRM sourcing, deal routing, benchmarking agents, LP maps & more

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Why You Need a New CFO, Small Funds Disappear, Optimal Portfolio Size, Future Path for AI Labs & More

Oct 14, 2026

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5 min read

💥Why You Need a New CFO, Small Funds Disappear, Optimal Portfolio Size, Future Path for AI Labs & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, Contrary, First Round, Theory Ventures & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

Oct 11, 2026

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2 min read

🔥How AI Transforms the CFO Function

Learnings from Earlybird, Gorgias, & Mostly Metrics on the hottest AI tools and workflows to automate finance, and what remains human

Andre Retterath

Essays

✍️ How to Automate Deal Sourcing, Scoring, Memos, Intros, Reporting & More

Oct 9, 2026

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5 min read

✍️ How to Automate Deal Sourcing, Scoring, Memos, Intros, Reporting & More

Hands-on insights from our DDVC Builders Breakfast in Munich

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥When to Raise, Biggest Opportunity in Software, Building a VC AI Brain & More

Oct 7, 2026

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5 min read

💥When to Raise, Biggest Opportunity in Software, Building a VC AI Brain & More

New insights from Creandum, Odin, Theory Ventures & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥World's Hottest Startups in October 2026

Oct 5, 2026

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4 min read

🔥World's Hottest Startups in October 2026

Which stealth and startup profiles get the most investor visits on Harmonic's platform?

Andre Retterath

Essays

✍️10 Takeaways from the DDVC Investor Stage at Bits & Pretzels 2026

Oct 2, 2026

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5 min read

✍️10 Takeaways from the DDVC Investor Stage at Bits & Pretzels 2026

From Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Balderton, Left Lane, KKR & More

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Why LPs Pass, Where to Make Money in AI, New Fund Performance Data, VC Tool Budgets & More

Sep 30, 2026

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5 min read

💥Why LPs Pass, Where to Make Money in AI, New Fund Performance Data, VC Tool Budgets & More

New insights from Carta, Stanford, Team8, Theory Ventures & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥Building Products That Investors Actually Use

Sep 27, 2026

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2 min read

🔥Building Products That Investors Actually Use

How 645 Ventures, Moonfire, and NFX build & manage their tech stacks

Andre Retterath

Essays

🔥More Shots on Goal: How AI Rewrites Portfolio Construction

Sep 25, 2026

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6 min read

🔥More Shots on Goal: How AI Rewrites Portfolio Construction

More investments, smaller checks, less reserves

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Anatomy of a Great VC Career, New Battleground in GTM, Rogue Agents in VC, The Software Barbell & More

Sep 23, 2026

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5 min read

💥Anatomy of a Great VC Career, New Battleground in GTM, Rogue Agents in VC, The Software Barbell & More

New insights from Menlo Ventures, Stanford, Odin, Growth Unhinged & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥AI Labs Asked to Slow Down While NVIDIA Keeps Shopping - Here's the State of the Market in September 2026

Sep 20, 2026

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6 min read

🔥AI Labs Asked to Slow Down While NVIDIA Keeps Shopping - Here's the State of the Market in September 2026

With fresh data from Hugging Face, Oura, Palantir & more (..)

Andre Retterath

Essays

Sep 18, 2026

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7 min read

🥳Celebrating 4 Year Anniversary🥳

New DDVC Bot, VC Skills, MCPs, Discounts & More

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥How to Win Family Office LPs, Why LPs Need VC Exposure, More Shots Needed at Seed, Incumbent Squeeze & More

Sep 16, 2026

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5 min read

💥How to Win Family Office LPs, Why LPs Need VC Exposure, More Shots Needed at Seed, Incumbent Squeeze & More

New insights from a16z, Angular Ventures, Chemistry & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?

Sep 13, 2026

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6 min read

🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?

The new edge in venture becomes winning, not sourcing. Insights from Originalis' Win Module

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More

Sep 8, 2026

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5 min read

💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, NFX, Odin & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026

Sep 6, 2026

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4 min read

🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026

Which stealth and startup profiles get most investor visits on Harmonic's platform?

Andre Retterath

Essays

🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners

Sep 3, 2026

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5 min read

🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners

Why the AI boom will concentrate capital in fewer companies and make venture capital more exclusive

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

Aug 30, 2026

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3 min read

🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

How Accel, Chapter One, Georgian, and RTP Global decide who owns the stack

Andre Retterath

Essays

Aug 27, 2026

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3 min read

🔥What Thousands of VC Agents Do All Day

Insights from Harmonic's AI Agents

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More

Aug 25, 2026

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4 min read

💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, Foundation Capital, Odin, SVB & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

Aug 23, 2026

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9 min read

🎙️How I Invest: The AI-Native VC Firm

What We Learned Rebuilding a $2.5B AUM Investment Firm Around AI, Data & Technology

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More

Aug 19, 2026

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5 min read

💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More

New insights from Carta, Khosla, Sequoia, Stanford & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026

Aug 16, 2026

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6 min read

🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026

With fresh data from Cloudflare, Datadog, Revolut & more (..)

Andre Retterath

Essays

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

Aug 14, 2026

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4 min read

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

The Knowledge Base, Method, & Best Practices

Andre Retterath

Andre Retterath

✍️Inside Our DDVC London Hackathon: AI for Finding, Assessing & Managing Deals

💥Why You Need a New CFO, Small Funds Disappear, Optimal Portfolio Size, Future Path for AI Labs & More

🔥How AI Transforms the CFO Function

✍️ How to Automate Deal Sourcing, Scoring, Memos, Intros, Reporting & More

💥When to Raise, Biggest Opportunity in Software, Building a VC AI Brain & More

🔥World's Hottest Startups in October 2026

✍️10 Takeaways from the DDVC Investor Stage at Bits & Pretzels 2026

💥Why LPs Pass, Where to Make Money in AI, New Fund Performance Data, VC Tool Budgets & More

🔥Building Products That Investors Actually Use

🔥More Shots on Goal: How AI Rewrites Portfolio Construction

💥Anatomy of a Great VC Career, New Battleground in GTM, Rogue Agents in VC, The Software Barbell & More

🔥AI Labs Asked to Slow Down While NVIDIA Keeps Shopping - Here's the State of the Market in September 2026

🥳Celebrating 4 Year Anniversary🥳

💥How to Win Family Office LPs, Why LPs Need VC Exposure, More Shots Needed at Seed, Incumbent Squeeze & More

🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?

💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More

🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026

🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners

🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

🔥What Thousands of VC Agents Do All Day

💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More

🎙️How I Invest: The AI-Native VC Firm

💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More

🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

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